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    <body><![CDATA[Well, now I totally get what Hirondelle and Emmaco said about this being an extraordinarily difficult book to pin down -- both in terms of the kind of book it is (fantastic or just the whimsical story-telling of the unreliable narrator?) and of my own response.  <br/><br/>It was certainly easier t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56216150">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[N falls madly in love with Margaret Towne while a grad student. When he goes to visit her family in Margarettown he finds several women named Margaret: May, a little girl, Mia, a sullen teenager, Marge, a cynical middle-aged woman, Greta a 50ish woman who has committed suicide and Marge, old and ful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76939495">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is refreshing because it is different from much of what is out there.  The narrator, addressing his daughter, tells his love story with Margaret (the mother).  He makes the visit to &quot;Margarettown&quot; to meet her &quot;family&quot; which is really a group of women, all with nicknames...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50625351">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a neat, bizarre little book this was. <em>Margarettown</em> is actually a letter from father to daughter, telling the tale of how he meets her mother, Margaret, and his life thereafter. I loved the blurred lines between fable and reality, where you wonder if the narrator is being imaginative, a little d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72794016">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Margarettown<br/>Gabrielle Zevin<br/>304pp<br/>Miramax Books<br/>1401359965<br/><br/><br/>What if you fell in love with a woman, and when you fell in love with her it ment you had to be in love with many other woman. N(we never learn his full name) falls in love with Maggie tha first minute h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70455548">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The name Margaret derives from the Greek word margaron, which means pearl. ... Margaret has more nicknames than any other female name in the English language. &quot; (p. 60). Margarettown by Garbrielle Zevin takes this fact literarily, in the form of Maggie and her many selves.<br/><br/>Narr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34491968">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In <em>Margarettown</em> Gabrielle Zevin writes with a vaguely Nabokovian flavour that i can't quite place (i'm thinking maybe an earlier King, Queen, Knave Nabokov not an accomplished Lolita voice, but Nobovovian, nonetheless) but i know i absolutely love. Margaret M. Towne (Maggie for short) comes from a t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22912296">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[REALLY interesting concept, and I was engaged throughout the story, wanting to know what happened next.  Stylistically very cool, there were some breathtaking moments.  But I never felt like I connected with the characters very strongly.  I wanted to care more about them as individuals.  Instead of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60259875">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I definitely agree with the GoodReads description that this book is similar to The Time Traveler's Wife.  I liked it even better for the fact that it was a lot shorter.  It presents the idea that we are many different people or personalities throughout the stages of our lives.  I'm glad the author w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44135896">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a quirky little book, definitely not one of her YA books. I loved the concept that within each of us lies a small town, and that we also go through stages of our lives...and those people who we've become can stay with us, or we can let them go...also of falling in love with the complete person,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62783681">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not 100% sure what to say about this book. It isn't that I didn't enjoy it--I did. But possibly it was too fragmented and meta-fiction-esque to hold my complete interest. There were good sections, like the early, more cohesive narrative about N. and Maggie, and the last section, about Jane. But ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26773841">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[okay... so normally i absolutly hate when people use the word &quot;charming&quot; to describe a movie or book. maybe because usually they are referring to a bad romantic comedy, and maybe this book has a bit of that in it, but i loved it to pieces and did indeed find it charming.<br/><br/>i don't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37801968">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on a flight, so maybe I just didn't get it. I was annoyed and bored by Margarettown. I think it may require a bit slower of a read and more careful attention. It has a unique concept and a different kind of storytelling technique, but in this case, originality alone was not enough for me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61369202">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange premise for a novel- narrated by a dying man in a letter to his daughter about his true love and her mother named Margaret Towne, who lives in a place called Margarettown with 6 other Margaret Towne's of all ages...it's a love story with a bit of a fantastical quality, suggesting that anythi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4478978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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